All the Way

'Another astonishing work by Darrieussecq. All the Way is a stunning achievement.' -- M. J. Hyland
'A dreamy and daring narrative.' * Courier Mail and Daily Telegraph *
'Explicit, funny and unsentimental, All the Way captures what it's like to be under-age and out of your mind with desire. Darrieussecq is a sublime writer with real insight.' * Saturday Age and Sydney Morning Herald *
'Darrieussecq is excellent at evoking the ever-shiftin boundaries of the adolescent world. She also poignantly depicts the complexities of parent-child relationships and their often turbulent period during adolescence.' * Weekend Australian *
'[A] sharp, funny and honest description of a girl coming to grips with her blooming sexuality.' * Herald Sun *
'All the Way offers insight into the confusing world of adolescence and sexual awakening and is unsettling in its honesty.' * Launceston Examiner *
'Darrieussecq is not afraid to break social taboos, nor does she flinch from the utter selfishness that accompanies adolescence...sad, funny and challenging.' * Otago Daily Times *
'Darrieussecq dissects with anatomical precision the climate of small-town France in the 1980s, with its strange mix of sexual openness and the continued prevalence of a particularly French brand of chauvinism and racism, all coloured by the disappointment of a generation that came of age in 1968, the promised revolution having faded almost completely, leaving nothing more noble than a petit bourgeois sensibility.' * Times Literary Supplement *